Alright. This is it. The real end. Finally! I want to give one last shout out to everyone who believed in me, and who enjoyed this story so far. For everyone who hated this because it was a crossover, I nod my head solemnly. For everyone who hated this just because, I'll be sure to sic Franziska von Karma on you. I just hope your back doesn't get too raw from her whippings!

And now, without further ado, for the last time:

READ ON!

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Phoenix Wright: MangaLandian Attorney
Case File 1; Turnabout Pirates
Day : Easter Egg

June 16, 3:34
Going Merry Go
Galley

It has been… a long while… since I "joined" the Straw Hat Pirates, becoming their honorary "Defense Attorney". It was a silly addition to such a great band of pirates. In fact, when encountering Marines, most assumed I HAD to be the doctor. After all, that mascot had to be something as silly as a defense attorney. On those days, after having to be rescued by the other members of the crew (even Nami and Robin had to double team a few times to prevent a few Marines from dragging me, kicking and screaming, to their cells), I would crawl down to the men's room, curl up into a ball in my hammock, and cry myself to sleep.

Sometimes, on these days, Usopp would lie to Chopper about me being sick with a rare disease, and Chopper would shove any pill he could think of down my throat. My friends back in my college always said I was a social animal… now sometimes I wished that I could just be left alone…

Of course, there were some days that made me feel a little more needed. One time, we all met with the Admiral, AoKiji (apparently it meant something like "Blue Pheasant", but what did I know?). When he decided he should take the entire crew out, I was able to hold him back for a moment, after bringing up the great things Luffy had done (ah, the wondrous powers of a lawyer!). Of course, it only held him back a few moments, for the next thing I realized, he was freezing Robin frozen solid! He was so strong; I assumed he probably could even defeat Sakura Tenshi! Of course, by this time, I was carrying the frozen Robin off with Chopper and Usopp.

We barely made our way out of that predicament (alright, so LUFFY barely made HIS way out of that predicament), and my suit was absolutely ruined with warm water from warming both Robin and Luffy up from the inside (Oh well, it only cost about the average amount that I had to pay for one month's worth of RENT, not like it mattered much).

Then… there was a time I had to defend a young man in the murder of his childhood friend (although I was, of course, in disguise, to avoid people from knowing that I was really a pirate), but that's another story. Many Fangirls said that my adventure was "needless filler", but I failed to see what it was filling in for. If there was anything I was proud of during my work as a Straw Hat Pirate, it was the hard work I did to help that poor young man! But, I allowed such rumors to be said behind my back. After all, what was I supposed to say…? It's not like I could stand up to the Fangirls and make them stop…

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It was the day after meeting with that Kokoro lady and her granddaughter, Chimney. After seeing a train that ran over water, I was rather amazed! How life would have been different if people invented sea trains rather than airplanes… I was busy airing my over coat out (what else was I supposed to do, without any television or law books to read…?), when Nami suddenly shouted out that there was a storm coming on.

I had learned quickly beforehand that the weather on the Grand Line was fickle, and that it changed at a moment's notice. So it came as no surprise when the rain suddenly poured onto the Going Merry, ruining (once again) my suit. As the rest of the crew rushed around like ants, preparing to ride out the storm, I was grabbing my over coat off its hanger and retreated into the galley, mostly to get out of everyone's way. Tashigi was right… I wasn't fit for sailing…

As the ship tossed and turned, I found myself trying to hold onto my lunch. Every once in a while, Nami would shout at me to turn the ship, and since I had quickly learned which way was "starboard" and which was "port" in advance, I was finally able to find myself useful. I pushed my whole body into the smiling whipstaff, and Nami finally shouted that it was dying down. I settled down with a sigh, propping myself up against the whipstaff, and suddenly there was a shout of distress from outside.

I looked up quickly, just as Chopper rushed into the galley jumped into my arms for reinforcement. The poor reindeer needed his fur dried off soon, and I sighed when I decided it might as well be me, but before I could lift the reindeer up and carry him off to the bathroom to dry him off, he looked up in my direction, his eyes wide with terror, "Nick! Nick! There's a Fanboy outside! He brought this scary guy who's wearing a suit!"

"A suit…?" I blinked, and looked up expectantly. Could it be Edgeworth? Had he come back, finally? There was another shout and the galley door was practically kicked down. A man rushed in, trying desperately (and in vain) to wipe the water from the rain off of his suit, "Damn it!" He shouted angrily, "You said it was bright out! I didn't bring my umbrella! NOW look at my suit! It's RUINED, RUINED!"

"Um…" The Fanboy entered behind the man, rubbing the back of his head, "I'm sorry?"

"Do you know how much this cost, you little piece of…?" The man ripped his glasses from his face and pulled out a handkerchief to wipe them off, but stopped when he realized the handkerchief was just as wet. He gave another roar that made the doctor in my arms hug me closer, "It cost me more than $1,400! Let's see you try and pay THAT back, you snot!"

"Need a defense attorney?" I said jokingly to the Fanboy, who silently cried to himself.

"Hold it! Hold on!" Nami shouted as the other members of the crew started filing into the galley, one by one, "Who the hell are you, and why are you here?"

"He's got funny glasses!" Luffy said, poking the rectangular rims until the man dragged them back away from the captain's reach, "I want glasses now too!"

"No you don't, Luffy…" Zoro responded as the man in the ruined suit (who was not me) reapplied his glasses, the veins in his temple throbbing from anger.

"QUIET!" He shouted, making everyone shut up, which made me surprised, as even Zoro and Sanji seemed to stop bickering when he shouted. He pushed his still wet glasses up his nose and sighed, "Much better… Now, you may call me Tetsurou Kirisaki, I am… the owner of the Kirisaki medical establishment."

"So you're a doctor, then?" Sanji asked, lighting up a cigarette.

"My, you're smarter then I pegged you for," Kirisaki said, in a tone that said "obviously, you snot". It nearly made the cook charge. His glasses slid down his nose, and he pushed them back up with his middle finger, "Now, I have come here on urgent business. I have need of your defense attorney." Everyone turned to me, still hugging the fluffy reindeer. I looked at Chopper, who stared at me, and we pulled apart quickly.

"Ahem," I said, coughing into my hand and dragging myself into an upright position, "You… need me for some reason?"

"Of course," Kirisaki replied, "Do I really need to be here if I didn't? It's not like people usually go out of their way to look for pirates," He seemed to be disgusted by the thought, which made members of the crew get a little tense, "It's my surgery clinic. It was a year ago, do you remember?" He pulled out an article from the business case he was holding, and handed it to me.

"Oh yeah, I remember reading about this," I replied, "14 people died because of a medical malfunction. And… you need me to defend you because of this?"

"Listen when someone's telling a story, I'll get to that soon enough," Kirisaki growled, holding his hands up and tensely flexing his fingers, even as his glasses slid down his nose. After pushing them back up, he continued, "A few days later, the nurse responsible for the malfunction… died in a car crash. Many people thought I played a hand in her death."

"But it was a year ago!" Usopp cried, crossing his arms, "Why do you need a defense attorney for that NOW?"

"I SAID… listen… I'll get to that soon enough…" Kirisaki hissed, guttural enough that even Robin prepared to snap his spine in two, "I need your defense attorney… because of Lady Maya Fey…"

"Maya," I gasped, my eyes wide, "How do you know Maya's name?" I demanded. Surely, a man like him, so intent on his business wouldn't know someone like her without…

"I'm not FINISHED!" Kirisaki shouted, speeding his speech up so he could finish quickly and reduce the interruptions, "Because some people think I killed my nurse, no one's coming to the Kirisaki Hospital!" None of us needed to mention that with this guy's attitude, none of us would go there regardless of whether he murdered someone or not, "Therefore, I enlisted the aid of a Spirit Medium, Maya Fey. She's been pretty famous in recent days. I hear that you worked under her, actually."

I nodded a bit, "Yeah, we did work together, actua… HEY!" I shouted, "I worked under HER?"

"Ah, perhaps I heard her wrong?" Kirisaki said, looking (for once) caught off guard. I sighed a bit and rubbed my temple, smiling.

"No, no…" ("That sounds exactly like Maya…" I said, reminiscing our days together), "Uh, I mean, YES. We worked together, but she was MY partner!"

"She sounds so beautiful!" Sanji crooned, clasping his hands together as hearts sprang from his person, "I would love to meet a young blossom like her!" He gave a cry when Nami gave him a nudge in the gut to shut him up as the conversation continued.

"Hmm…" Kirisaki muttered, "Oh well, it matters not who worked under whom…" He pushed his glasses up his nose, as they were (once again) slipping, "I just need you to come back to Earth; it's a matter of grievous urgency.

"I had spoken to Lady Maya, asking her to channel the spirit of my deceased nurse, you see. If I could just get her to come back and tell me what was going on, then perhaps I could tell the world that I was innocent, and my reputation wouldn't be ruined!" Kirisaki looked rather smug by this point. According to him, this plan was utter genius, "I asked Lady Maya if she would do the honors. After all, she is the heir to the Fey Family. I wouldn't want some half brooded branch family doing something this delicate. Unfortunately… ("this is where you come in" he added quickly) she refused to do it. This will be her first summoning since her training has finished, and she is a little worried about the outcome. She promised to do it only if you came, Phoenix Wright."

"So that's why you need Nick!" Chopper proclaimed, clapping his hooves together as Kirisaki pushed his glasses up his nose again.

"But that's it…?" Luffy said, looking rather frustrated that some man would come in and FORCE the Straw Hat Pirates' defense attorney to come back with him, "You don't need him to defend you or anything? Nick is a defense attorney! That's what he's supposed to do is defend people! You're asking him to…"

"Luffy… please," I cut the captain's rantings off rather quickly. The captain blinked at me, and I nodded at Kirisaki, "I understand. You need me to inspire Maya to do her best, so you got yourself an attorney."

"Phoenix!" I turned. Everyone was staring at me, their eyes pleading, "We need you here! You… don't have to leave…"

"Come on, everyone…" I began, shrugging my shoulders, "Maya needs me now more than you guys ever will from here on out, and really…" I chuckled a bit as I looked away, smiling, "I… really want to see her as much as she does me. I've waited more than half a year to hear from her again, so I… think it's about time I…"

"You left…" Zoro said gruffly, his arms crossed, "I should have known you'd chicken out someday…"

"But Niiiick!" Chopper cried, looking terribly traumatized, "You can't just LEAVE! You… you're our Nakama…"

"What if you forget?" Nami asked, rubbing her arm insecurely as she continued, "What if you forget about us? You could say this was all a very realistic dream… and you could… refuse to accept our existence…" There was silence among the rest of the crew, and I could feel everyone's eyes fall on me. Sanji gave a look that said "You WOULD, too, you bastard", and Usopp tried to be a man and not cry about my fervor to leave.

I thought for a moment. What could I show them that would prove, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that I wouldn't forget them? That I accepted that this was all real? I needed some evidence, and I had just the thing, "Don't worry, you guys, I'll never forget any of you! How could I, when I have this?" I unbuttoned my cuff button and pulled back my left sleeve, "TAKE THAT!"

Everyone blinked at the marking on my arm. It was a fading X, barely legible from the few showers that I had taken when I was with the crew (I was surprised when I had seen that the Going Merry had a bathroom!), "I can't forget you guys when I have this…"

"Ahhhh, it's the X…" Nami said. The only person who didn't seem fazed by this sign was Robin. That seemed to be acceptable, as I heard from Luffy that Robin wasn't around when this sign was invented by the captain, "You… won't forget us without this… I guess…?"

"How can I? I've become quite attached to it," I said, smiling, "I was thinking of drawing a new one here just yesterday, actually." Everyone peered at the X, and Zoro gave a "humph", looking away. Nami nodded, and everyone looked much happier.

"So, we're out of here, then?" The Fanboy asked cracking his fingers, "I'll have to concentrate a little more to get all three of us back, but I'm sure I'll manage somehow."

"Wait! You're not leaving yet, Nick!" Luffy said, smiling, "You still gotta get paid!" The rest of the crew gasped. Luffy actually remembered something THEY didn't?

"Awww…" Nami muttered, looking a little angry, "Can't we just say that he was able to get a nice cruise and we'll be even?" I sweat a bit at her question, and I scratched the back of my head. Aside from the fact that it wasn't a CRUISE (nearly getting frozen solid by a deranged member of the police wasn't much of a cruise, after all), I felt that it was nice to get some monetary gain for my services before I left for home. Rent was rent, after all.

"Come on, Nami!" Usopp said a little indignantly, "Just a little! We'll still have plenty for the Going Merry!" I looked at the marksman. He loved the ship so much, I felt glad that he was backing me up. I nodded a little, even as Nami sighed.

"Fine, Fine," She muttered, "Sanji-kun… go pick up his payment."

"Right away, Nami-san! Mellorine!" Sanji crowed, rushing off to go collect the money I had rightfully deserved a while ago. He returned, handing me a gold icon that seemed almost Incan in appearance, "Here you are, crappy attorney. You'd better not spend it all in one place…"

"I don't know about that…" I said, chuckling. This looked just enough to pay the rent that had piled up… "But I'll do my best."

"Be careful, Nick!"

"See you again, Nick!"

"Bye, Phoenix!"

"Be sure to come visit."

"And bring by that Maya lady when you do, alright?"

"Goodbye… Attorney-san…"

I suddenly felt a weird sensation, much like when I had come here in the first place. The Fanboy continued to chant, and I nodded at the crew, "I… I'll see you guys again!" I promised. This was the first time in a while that I became so attached to my client before, "Goodbye!"

"Goodbye!" came the reply, and there was a bright flash… I knew I was going to see them again, someday… but how much would they have changed… when I finally would decide to pay them a visit…? As I dropped carefully back into my office, I looked at Kirisaki and the Fanboy, who simply tipped his hat and disappeared again. I turned to look at Kirisaki, and the doctor smiled, "Well then, see you in a few days. I suggest you pack…"

He then turned and left my office, grumbling about his ruined suit. I looked around my office, and sighed. I placed the icon upon my desk, and grabbed my broom. I then started sweeping up the powder that was left when I had left… and even though I tried to think about what to take on my trip to Maya's hometown in the mountains; I couldn't seem to rid my mind of Luffy's smiling face…

The End!

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Yes, my friends. This is truly The End of Turnabout Pirates. Don't worry though, everyone.

Keep watching, I'm making another Phoenix Wright trial which will most likely be titled "Turnabout Bourgeois".

Please be on the lookout for it! Oh yeah, and review. This is your LAST CHANCE OMG!

P.S. At my leisure, I will be going back over this story, and fixing minor inconsistancies. Thank you, once again, for everything.

Much Love:

Christy